Morgan McGarvey

I believe health care is a basic human right. No one should receive a diagnosis and have to worry about going bankrupt, or be forced to choose between their prescription medications and paying for groceries. That’s why I support Medicare for All to ensure that everyone is covered with quality, affordable, accessible care.

I support federal spending and tax incentives to dramatically expand renewable energy buildout in the United States, infrastructure spending to speed the deployment of electric vehicles, and tax incentives for consumer purchase of union-made and American-made electric vehicles. I support a federal clean energy standard that incentivizes investor-owned electric utilities to achieve greenhouse gas emissions reductions while creating millions of good-paying jobs to build the clean energy infrastructure necessary to make this transition. And I will fight for federal spending to incentivize rural electric cooperatives to transition to clean, renewable energy by relieving debt associated with coal-fired power plants, and conditioning such relief upon the coop’s investment in a clean energy transition.

But there is still more work to be done. We need to shore up our rural health care systems. We must allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices with pharmaceutical companies. We must expand health insurance coverage to include vision, dental, and hearing. In Congress, I will continue this work to ensure that all Kentuckians have health care coverage that allows them to regularly see a doctor, access affordable prescription medication, and survive an emergency or catastrophic health diagnosis without incurring financial hardship.

At the federal level, it is time for the United States to expand public education to include universal pre-Kindergarten and free community college so that every Kentuckian can gain access to the skills they need to get a good, family-supporting job. I further believe we must sufficiently fund our public universities to make them affordable for all Americans.

Raise the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour and index it to inflation.

• Preserve the wage amount and automatic adjustment mechanism.

Require equal pay for equal work.

• Preserve the explicit pay-equity standard.

Guarantee workers at least four weeks of paid family leave.

• Preserve the minimum duration and benefit type.

Subsidize child care to make it affordable for working families.

• Preserve the subsidy mechanism and affordability objective.

Establish universal prekindergarten.

• Preserve the universal early-education mechanism.

Make the federal Child Tax Credit permanent.

• Preserve the permanence mechanism.

Protect workers' rights to form unions and bargain collectively.

• Preserve both labor rights.

Pass the PRO Act, including worksite access, limits on captive-audience meetings, and financial penalties for union-busting.

• Preserve the named bill and three stated mechanisms.

Favor companies with union workforces when making federal investments in infrastructure, education, renewable energy, and electric vehicles and batteries.

• Preserve the procurement direction and named investment sectors.

Enact Medicare for All to provide universal quality, affordable, and accessible health care.

• Preserve the named mechanism and coverage objectives.

Supports Medicare negotiating prescription-drug prices; the existing federal program already negotiates selected drugs.

Expand health-insurance coverage to include vision, dental, and hearing services.

• Preserve all three added benefit categories.

Strengthen rural health-care systems.

• Preserve the system objective without inventing a payment mechanism.

Codify Roe v. Wade in federal law.

• Preserve the stated federal legislative mechanism.

Require health insurers to cover birth control.

• Preserve the coverage mandate.

Pass the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.

• Preserve the named federal bill.

Expand absentee voting, automatic registration, same-day registration, early voting, and ballot drop boxes.

• Preserve all five named access mechanisms.

Make federal Election Day a federal holiday.

• Preserve the named access mechanism.

Enact comprehensive immigration reform centered on a broad path to citizenship for approximately 11 million undocumented residents.

• Preserve the legislative direction, centerpiece mechanism, and stated population scale.

Pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act.

• Preserve the named federal bill.

Enact a federal ban on no-knock warrants.

• Preserve the jurisdiction and categorical restriction.

Pass the Equality Act to prohibit discrimination based on sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity.

• Preserve the named bill and protected characteristics.

Pass the LGBTQ Youth Act to expand child-abuse prevention and treatment programs addressing LGBTQ youth.

• Preserve the named bill, program mechanism, and beneficiary group.

Use federal spending and tax incentives to expand renewable-energy development.

• Preserve the two fiscal mechanisms and energy objective.

Fund electric-vehicle infrastructure and provide tax incentives for union-made, American-made electric vehicles.

• Preserve the infrastructure spending and purchase-incentive mechanisms.

Establish a federal clean-energy standard that incentivizes utilities to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and create good-paying jobs.

• Preserve the regulatory mechanism and two outcomes.

Provide federal debt relief to rural electric cooperatives for coal-fired plants on the condition that they invest in a clean-energy transition.

• Preserve the conditional debt-relief mechanism.